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nuts - like whacking your fingers with a rubber mallet to take your mind off having stubbed your toe

Be cheaper to just pay a good climber (even fly them in from anywhere) then bonfire on the lawn and returf a square

it's worth walking off the footpaths in woods, otherwise you risk dogwalkers trying to be witty 'you're not going to hang yourself are you?' etc

It will be great if Sweden tighten up, but Spain and Greece are the ones I'd like to see get more sensible - more money spent on policing the seas, tracking vessels leaving Libya and surrounding, when they enter forbidden zone tow them right back From Migration Watch UK Why is the current level of immigration a problem? 8. High net migration has resulted in rapid population growth. The UK population currently stands at 65.6 million. The Office of National Statistics ‘high’ migration scenario projects that the UK population will now increase by almost 400,000 a year for the next 25 years - the population of Bristol currently stands at 430,000. This is unsustainable and in the long term would lead to growth of almost 10 million over the next 25 years. The ONS state that around 82% of this increase will be down to future migrants and their children. The remaining population growth will come from the UK’s existing population, including births to immigrants already here. This one sentence from the website is enough reason to not vote Labour - 'Under the last Labour government (1997-2010) an extra 3.6 million foreign migrants arrived, while one million British citizens left. ' And the depressing thing is the Conservatives haven't sorted it either - 6. The coalition government elected in 2010 pledged to reduce net migration to the ‘tens of thousands’. However, despite some reduction in migration from outside the European Union, overall net migration rose to a third of a million. This is largely because net migration from the EU doubled over the last Parliament due to the ongoing disparity in wealth between Eastern Europe and the UK together with the Eurozone crisis affecting Southern Europe. (See here) This no doubt played an important role in the decision taken by the British people to leave the European Union. 7. Under the current Conservative government net migration now stands at an estimated 230,000 for the year ending June 2017 JRM could get a crack team of surgeons mobilized out in the community

it won't matter to the public, but spikes on your crown thinning pic? Maybe the hard science will say there's no biological problem with it either - or are they chaps straps ha ha

Wicked thanks Bill, rather learn vicariously through your fun! Mick you mean just do a top cut right near the trunk outside the swollen collar and let the tips hit the deck, does it tear off down the trunk or do you have to release it once the tips are on the ground? Arb yes i know they are ace trainers wrote the hse rigging research etc, still money i could spend on a death trap 661

cool, so sometimes natural crotching a big bit is quicker than a branch walk and lots of free fall?

ok so the bar could get trapped any experienced climbers willing to share experiences of big trees they've dismantled and lower limbs came off in one? Breakdown of methods used, safety etc - or is it just very rarely if ever done that way with a big limb? Also I can see the tip bounce that Timon mentioned being a disaster waiting to happen if the but swings round and twats someone or something! Bucking Billy Ray - maybe he has a tutorial on it? ?

oak is what prompted the question, but interested in the methods to be applied to anything, interesting what Mick says about cedar so the dog tooth cut that they teach to fell a leaning tree - a nearly horizontal limb surely is an extreme case of a lean? i probably will do the branch walking on any dismantles I get, but was interested in how the pros do it to save time if that's the case and learning their secrets, without having to turn up on site and operate a rake for many years

so I usually do hedges and smaller trees, what I want to know is when a medium large tree is being dismantled, what are the methods to take off the lower limbs, say ones 12" and above in diameter? I'm not thinking lowering, just freefall, but read on here some time back I think Moray Jim it could have been, tried severing a large oak limb in one and it split on him and he walked away but was lucky really. I seem to remember a step cut and people with various suggestions - like should have walked out and done it in bits to relieve tension on the limb (seems safest, but less expedient), also seem to remember re the step cut that matched cut is better, not inboard or outboard. Maybe the best cut wasnt even discussed, which is why I'm asking - maybe freefall large limbs in one is too risky, even for the best? Especially if you have to be lanyarded to the thing to attain work position, perhaps not as bad if you can triangulate your lines from above? Would anyone bore in the side of a large horizontal limb to remove in one to prevent splitting? Other people on that previous post about the oak accident said about using a big saw on a small bar - cut through quick before its splits basically (sounded risky to me) so whats the word on the street re getting big limbs off safely? Or is there no safe way? On medium or large tree how much time would be saved lopping all the heavy limbs off in one as opposed to in sections branch walking - my guess 90 to 120 minutes - nothing if your lanyard is popping as the limb splits. But some people prefer to take a horizontal limb in one when dismantling?

the main factor for wanting to keep on existing must be love? I don't think so - people keep on existing when nothing has gone wrong in their brains - when they commit suicide it's like a car engine that packs up e.g with a blocked fuel injector. I've always had problems with the L word. Like the Beatles 'money can't buy me love' - love can't exist in a dead body and money keeps the body alive - so even if money can't directly buy love - love can't happen without money

capitalist pig investment banker Macron has blocked it

the trouble is Richard is in Surrey - where you have to charge the earth to even consider buying a house, he feels frustrated that he can't own the home of his dreams - the only solution is no more immigration ever

maybe it's lack of intelligence - I've noticed a few people like me - blundering around without ever getting anywhere fast - it's only natural some of the primates will secure more resources than others

i always think the tree cutting operations are much more expensive to do than hedges. My hedge gear hs87t 40" (weapon), hs86r, kmht, ht131, rake, blower, tripod ladder, tipper and panel van - I'm not buying them every year, or repairing them all the time. Hardly ever burn more than a fiver of fuel in a day - maybe I need to eat more Weetabix

i think it boils down to some people are less skilled than others - I know I couldn't tackle some of the huge broadleaf reductions, or the tricky dismantles with time constraints - and the £150 a day is fine with me. No great expense involved in cutting hedges, or doing the easier tree jobs. The big boys are worth more because they have the skills assets and experience. The fact I can do at least some of the work the pro's do for maybe half or 2/3rd price - I'm still making a living at 500, 600 a week. Loads of people are less successful and still get along - gives me something to aim for - if I grow up I want to be a £1000 per week entrepeneur master tradesman type effort

trouble with hedges is its not difficult work - you don't need £60k of assets on site, or be highly qualified. I know my hedgecutters are a cost spread over how long they last and a bit of fuel, tripod ladder, few bits of ply to surf on, tipper, no big deal. A tree surgeon good at reductions and technical dismantles, perhaps with his/her life savings in a yard and machinery - and a gardener working from home can both hold the machine and wave it about, although the tree surgeons results will be a geometric masterpiece - the gardener will just rasher off the growth and shrug off complaints about the rollercoaster top so I've heard anyway

4.5 woman days

My Ridgeline Moonsoon elite has been through brambles, but not rummaging in thorn hedges. Still nice and waterproof. Comfortable to work in sub 5C. If I was good at shoplifting I would get a Swazi

so was 300 odd on Amazon, seems to be on sale for 90 odd here http://www.mypfc.co.uk/men-coat/jackets/snickers-18882604007-size-x-large-gore-tex-shell-jacket-yellowblack-gjk2a04i3.html?limit=25 not sure I'd want to use my debit card on that site, they haven't even completed the about us section on their site, possibly scammers

Just get something cheap - if revolutionary waterproof fabric hits the market youll wish youd saved the 500 for that

i messed up in a similar way but without pull rope, surrounding trees too close to let the top freefall and it found its way back to me, the twigs dragging down across my shoulders seemed to take forever

great hook, I always remember the other one 'like a cat in a bag, waiting to drown' ha ha

the betting firms must be doing well out of this "While you can’t bet on politics or entertainment props in the United States, you most certainly can in the offshore markets and especially in the United Kingdom, whose citizens seem to revel in wagering on what happens in Washington D.C. PaddyPower, an Ireland-based book, has seen a big swing this week on multiple Trump proposition bets. Most notably, on the prop of Trump ceasing to be president this year – via any means – PaddyPower moved from 10/1 down to 4/1. That means the bookmaker more than doubled the chances of Trump’s presidency ending in 2018. The odds of Trump being impeached slightly tightened, from 2/1 to 6/4, as did the odds of Trump leaving before his first term ends in 2020, from 6/4 to 5/4."

seems to me if they used thicker plate and stronger pins the zigzag links would be up to the job without needing additional friction, although the device may then be prohibitively heavy to lift